What is whatdotheyknow-mcp AGENTS.md?

Repository instructions for an AI coding agent working on the WhatDoTheyKnow MCP server, a tool for searching freedom-of-information requests and drafting submissions.

Maintaining, releasing, and checking this specific server, including its Fly.io deployment and health checks.

Keeps deployments, version changes, required web routes, and repository conventions consistent.

How paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp configures Codex and OpenCode

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/main/AGENTS.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 397 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 397 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00397	$0.00397
Opus 5	$0.00198	$0.00198
Sonnet 5	$0.00079	$0.00079
Haiku 4.5	$0.00040	$0.00040

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7e62ef525bfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

whatdotheyknow-mcp AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl https://whatdotheyknow-mcp.fly.dev/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

AGENTS.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

AGENTS.md — whatdotheyknow-mcp

AI agent instructions for working in this repo. See /home/bch/dev/ops/OPS.md for credentials, fleet overview, and release tooling.

Repo shape

Single server.py. Tools for searching FOI requests, authorities, and drafting WhatDoTheyKnow submissions. Not on PyPI — deployed to Fly only.

Deploy

fly deploy --ha=false

Single instance, lhr region. App name: whatdotheyknow-mcp. Fly.io account: [email protected].

Version bump

Update version in pyproject.toml
Update version string in the smithery_server_card route in server.py
Commit and push (no PyPI release needed)
fly deploy --ha=false
Cut a new Glama release

Standard routes (must always be present)

/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json — Smithery metadata
/.well-known/glama.json — Glama maintainer claim
/health — Fly health check

Verify after deploy:

curl https://whatdotheyknow-mcp.fly.dev/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
curl https://whatdotheyknow-mcp.fly.dev/.well-known/glama.json
curl https://whatdotheyknow-mcp.fly.dev/health

README badge order

SafeSkill → Glama card → Smithery

(No PyPI badge — not published to PyPI)

Do not

Do not use FASTMCP_PORT — the server reads PORT env var only
Do not set internal_port in fly.toml to anything other than 8080
Do not commit API keys — all secrets are in Fly secrets (fly secrets list)

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

8d ago First seen · 51 lines · 397 tokens per session scan A 7e62ef525bfa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

whatdotheyknow-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository paulieb89/whatdotheyknow-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 397 tokens to every session, about $0.0020 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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